Citizenship-Residence-Age-Character.

Each applicant for admission in this state shall be a citizen of the state, at least 21 years of age, and of good moral character, which last shall be shown by certificate of three attorneys of this court.

Application.

Application must be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court, Montpelier, Vt., at least ten days before the October session of the Supreme Court. Such application must be verified by the affidavit of the applicant, and must contain statements regarding the candidate's age, residence, and the time, place, and circumstances of his term of study, and the affidavit of an attorney of the court stating that the applicant has actually pursued his studies as required by the rules, and accompanied also by the certificates of three attorneys vouching for his good moral character.

General Education.

The applicant shall present to the Board of Bar Examiners satisfactory proof that he has had a high school education or its equivalent. The Board of Examiners, under the supervision of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, shall on the first Tuesday of the October Term in each year consider and pass upon the sufficiency of the proof presented under this rule, and make report thereof and place the same on file in the office of the clerk of the General Term of the Supreme Court. In case the proof presented is satisfactory, and the notice of commencement of study as required by the paragraph below has been filed, the three-year period of study provided for by said rule shall commence on the date of filing of such notice and certificate.

Term of Study.

The candidate shall have studied in the office of an attorney of the Supreme Court within this state at least three years during the four years preceding the application: Provided, that the Supreme Court upon sufficient cause shown in a particular case, may allow study for one year in an office outside the state as an equivalent for one year of study in an office within the state, but the last year of study shall be within the state: Provided, further, that any applicant who shall have pursued a full three-year course of legal study in a law school chartered by any state of the United States, or the law department of any college or university so chartered, and shall be graduated therefrom, shall be required to study in a law office in this state at least six months within the two years preceding his application: Provided, further, that when an applicant has pursued less than a three-year course of legal study in such law school the time of such study may be allowed as an equivalent for the same time of study in an office, but the last year of study shall be in an office within the state.

It shall be the duty of each person beginning the study of law in this state to file with the clerk of the Supreme Court a notice stating that he has commenced the study, and with whom and where he commenced, and also a certificate of the attorney with whom he is studying, stating that he is so engaged and when he began. The three years study provided for by this rule shall commence from the date of filing such notice and certificate: Provided, that an applicant who begins his study of the law in a law school and has graduated therefrom, as required above, shall file with the clerk a notice stating that he has so commenced or is about to commence such study and the attorney with whom he is registered as a law student, and the three years provided for by this rule shall commence from the date when he actually enters upon his studies in the law

school; but the required six months in a law office shall not be deemed to have commenced before the filing of the notice above specified, nor before the filing of the certificate of the attorney with whom he is studying.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Time of Holding.

Examinations are held by the Board of Bar Examiners at Montpelier on the first three days of the October General Term. Applicants are required to be qualified upon the following subjects: Common Law Pleading and Practice, Evidence, Domestic Relations, Personal Property, Contracts (including Sales, Bailments, and Negotiable Instruments), Agency, Partnership, Corporations, Real Property (including Mortgages and Landlord and Tenant) Wills, Probate Law, Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and Practice in Chancery, Torts, Criminal Law, the important provisions of the Vermont statute law, especially those modifying the common law and those relating to practice, conveyancing, and probate, the Constitution of this state and of the United States, and Legal Ethics. The examination shall be partly written and partly oral, and shall include questions upon at least 12 of the foregoing topics. Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

An attorney who has been admitted to practice in the highest court of another state may be admitted in this state without examination, upon proof that he has practiced one year in such court, is of good moral character, and has resided six months next preceding his application in the county in this state from which his application is made, and that he is a citizen of this state. If he has not had one year's practice, he may be admitted upon examination after six months' law study. in an office in this state. In such case he shall file with the clerk of the General Term of the Supreme Court a notice of commencement of such study, stating with whom and where such study has been pursued, and also a certificate of the at

torney with whom he is studying, stating that he is so engaged and when he began.

Source of Rules.

Pub. St. 1906, §§ 1337, 1338; Supreme Court Rules.

VERMONT DECISIONS

1789 to 1917.

A complete set of Vermont Reports (down to 1917) consists of:

N. Chipman, 1 vol.

D. Chipman, 2 vols.

Tyler, 2 vols.

Brayton, 1 vol.

Aikens, 2 vols.

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Residence-Age-Character.

Every male person over 21 years of age, applying for a license to practice law, must first have obtained from the circuit court of the county or the corporation court of the city wherein he resides a certificate that he is a person of honest demeanor, over 21 years of age, and has resided in this state the preceding six months. Application for such certificate shall be in writing addressed to the court, and specifying the day of the month when the motion therefor to the court will be made, and must be accompanied by the written recommendation of two members of the bar of his judicial circuit, who are practicing attorneys in the Supreme Court of Appeals, speaking of their personal knowledge, that he is of good moral character and a proper person to be licensed to practice law. Such application and recommendation shall be filed with the clerk of such circuit or corporation court ten days before the day on which the court will be asked to grant the said certificate.

Every person over 19 and under 21 years of age, applying for a license to practice law, must obtain a like certificate as to his good moral character and residence within the state for the preceding six months from the circuit court of the county or the corporation court of the city wherein he resides. Such certificate shall also state that the applicant is over 19 years of age, that he has studied law for a period of two years in a law school in this state or in the office of a practicing attorney in this state, and shall give the exact date on which the applicant will attain the age of 21 years.

Application-When to be Filed-Form and Contents-Fee.

Applicant shall file a certified copy of his application, accompanied by recommendations and certificates required by the above paragraph, also a fee of $10, with the secretary of the